August 20, 1986 - In Edmond, Oklahoma, part-time mail carrier Patrick Henry Sherrill, armed with three handguns, kills 14 postal workers in 10 minutes and then takes his own life with a bullet to the head.

In New York City, for instance, a mail carrier in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn was charged in 2014 with hoarding more than a decade’s worth of the stuff — about 40,000 pieces of mail — in his work locker, his car and his home.

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